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Your Best Bets at Chicago Craft Beer Week

We have it on good authority that your beer-drinking quota is way down this month. The culprit: a lack of
citywide celebrations of artisan brewers. Well, starting today—when Chicago Craft Beer Week kicks
off—that particular drought ends. Herewith, the celebration’s five key events.

Drink Lots of Beer, Win a Bike

What you’ll drink: Snifters of New Belgium Gruit, flavored with herbs like wormwood and
yarrow.What you’ll eat: Gruit-infused beer-can pulled-chicken sliders.What you’ll do: Buy a lot of beer. Each beer you buy gets you a raffle ticket for a bike.
Just don’t ride it home.

What you’ll drink: An imperial stout brewed with donuts from Evil Twin.What you’ll eat: Yes, it’s hard to know what goes with donut beer. But when in doubt,
always go with the menu item called “massively thick-cut bacon.”What you’ll do: A pretty good Homer Simpson impression.

What you’ll drink: Lagunitas; this event is held at their new Pilsen brewery.What you’ll eat: Pizza, tamales, donuts... you’ll probably find some peanuts, which go
so well with beer and the circus.What you’ll do: Gawp at sword swallowers and burlesque performers; discover how well
circus rides and beer mix.